71st Division learns
Germans plan to make determined stand on the Danube; Division
accelerates its drive, bypassing small pockets of enemy, to stop this.

Apr 24

71st Division at
Regenstauf, river crossing underway.

Apr 25

71st Division crosses
Regen River at Regenstauf, heads south.

Apr 25

14th Infantry reaches
north bank of the Danube, fights its way into Donaustauf and Walhalla,
by midnight in position to begin assault.

Apr 26

14th Infantry crosses
Danube between Sulzbach and Donaustauf in an attack two battalions
abreast, and pushed inland. The rest of the Division crossed behind it
as soon as a pontoon bridge could be assembled.

Apr 27

14th Infantry, 2nd
Battalion receives major-general in charge of Regensburg, who surrenders
the city. 2nd Battalion proceeds to Regensburg to effect capitulation
of the city.

14th Infantry sweeps
and polices it area - captures 3,000 prisoners close to the Enns River.

May 6

71st Division captures
German Army Group South Lt. Gen, and his army surrenders - 60,000 POWs.

May 7

Contact is established
with Russian forces. 14th Regiment is officially notified that all
hostilities against Germany would cease as of May 9th. The 14th was in
the middle of the Danube plain at Droissendorf, Austria, where it
remained for the rest of the month.

May 9

Hostilities cease - war
in Germany is over.

Jun

14th Infantry moves to
Gunzburg, Germany to take up occupational duty.

71st Division had
advanced 775 miles since being committed to action 59 days earlier,
taken 107,406 prisoners. Days in combat: 14th first encountered enemy
forces on March 16, so 15 days in March, 30 days in April, 9 days in
May, equals 54 days in combat.